Charles Amirkhanian interviews Turkish born, Ilhan Mimaroğlu, about his company Finnadar Records. Mimaroğlu, a record producer and a composer in his own right, founded Finnadar in a partnership with Atlantic Records, in order to present avant-garde and new world music to the American audience, as well as a means to publish his own compositions. In this interview, recorded in October of 1975, Mimaroğlu discusses the challenges of recording and selling avant-garde and electro-acoustic music and talks about working with such composers as Eric Salzman and Pierre Boulez.
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